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1. Setting the default Java character encoding?    stackoverflow.com

How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically? I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be the way to go for older JVMs... I don't ...

2. Character Encoding Trouble - Java    stackoverflow.com

I've written a little application that does some text manipulation and writes the output to a file (html, csv, docx, xml) and this all appears to work fine on Mac OS ...

3. How to detect which character set encoding in Java?    stackoverflow.com

Does anybody know if there is a simple way to detect character set encoding in Java? It seems to me that some programs have the ability to detect which character ...

4. UTF-8 character encoding in Java    stackoverflow.com

I am having some problems getting some French text to convert to UTF8 so that it can be displayed properly, either in a console, text file or in a GUI element. The ...

5. Problem with greek characters using java    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to write greek characters to a file using java like this:

String greek = "\u03c1\u03ae\u03bc. \u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03ce";

 try {
         BufferedWriter out = ...

6. How to specify character encoding for Ant Task parameters in Java    stackoverflow.com

I'm writing an ANT task in Java. In my build.xml I specify parameters, which should be read from my java class. Problems occur, when I use special characters, like german umlauts ...

7. Java webstart character encoding issues    stackoverflow.com

I have a JavaFX/Groovy application that I'm trying to localize. It turns out that when I use JavaFX standard execution with the Java VM arg "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" locally, all of my international characters ...

8. compilation error regarding unmappable character for encoding UTF-8    stackoverflow.com

  //  Fahrenheit (°F)
I have the above code commented out in my java code, but I get the "unmappable character for encoding UTF-8". How do I fix this?

9. Java char set encoding problem(from UTF8 to cp866)    stackoverflow.com

How to convert text from utf8/cp1251(windows cyrillic) to DOS Cyrillic (cp866) I find this example:

Charset fromCharset = Charset.forName("utf8");
Charset toCharset = Charset.forName("cp866");

String text1 = "???????"; // my name in bulgarian
String text2 = "Nikolay"; ...





10. Jxcell character encoding    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way to set a character encoding for jxcell while exporting data to Excel format? I'm reading an InputStream containing cyrillic symbols in windows-1251 encoding. When I open created Excel ...

11. "Unmappable character for encoding UTF-8" error    stackoverflow.com

I 'm getting a compile error at the following method.

public static boolean isValidPasswd(String passwd) {
    String reg = "^(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[~#;:?/@&!\"'%*=¬.,-])(?=[^\\s]+$).{8,24}$";
    return Pattern.matches(reg, passwd);
   }
at ...

12. character encoding in a web page using java    stackoverflow.com

how to find out the type of character encoding in a web page using java

13. Character encoding    stackoverflow.com

I get html file which I need to read and parse, this file can be in plain English, japenese, or any language with associated character encoding required for that language. The ...

14. Platform default character encoding    stackoverflow.com

I have read that its bad idea to use platform default character encoding for example when reading a text file and importing the text into arrays etc. Could you explain how ...

15. Is there a simple way to append a byte to a StringBuffer and specify the encoding?    stackoverflow.com

Question

What is the simplest way to append a byte to a StringBuffer (i.e. cast a byte to a char) and specify the character encoding used (ASCII, UTF-8, etc)?

Context

I want to append ...

16. In what encoding is a Java char stored in?    stackoverflow.com

Is the Java char type guaranteed to be stored in any particular encoding? Edit: I phrased this question incorrectly. What I meant to ask is are char literals guaranteed to use any ...





17. What is the Character Encoding for Tamil Language?    coderanch.com

It depends on what encoding the characters are in you're passing to the application. If they are encoded in UTF-8, then that's what the program needs to use to decode them. If they're in GB2312, then that's would it should use. There is no single correct encoding for any language, just more or less commonly used ones, some of which the ...

18. Character Set Encoding    coderanch.com

I have my application in java and MySQL. Now the client wants to support multiple languages on the site. I am using Resource bundles for this purpose and most of the languages work fine. But i am facing problems with asian characters. I am on Windows platform. I installed all the fonts. i am able to see the korean characters in ...

19. Character Encoding    coderanch.com

20. Character encoding with German chars & euro other than UTF-8    coderanch.com

Hi all, I have a servlet to turn out some values in a CSV file. Everything works fine except that in some cases the file can have special German characters and the Euro symbol. When I download the file and open in Notepad, everything looks fine (using UTF-8 encoding). When opening in Excel however, it does not. I have read in ...

21. character encoding problem    coderanch.com

Request Encoding The request encoding is the character encoding in which parameters in an incoming request are interpreted. Currently, many browsers do not send a request encoding qualifier with the Content-Type header. In such cases, a Web container will use the default encodingISO-8859-1to parse request data. If the client hasnt set character encoding and the request data is encoded with a ...

22. Character encoding    coderanch.com

Originally posted by Vinod Iyer: Correct me if i am wrong. When user servlet does not set character encoding then a . servlet uses default encoding ( ISO-8859-1 ) b. servlets do not set the character encoding to ISO-8859-1 , its still null both a & b are correct , right ?? some one please confirm this

23. About character encoding    coderanch.com

Hello All, If I have a jsp file which has contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8", and I would like to type some chinese words in the text box and submit to server and then save to db (varchar2). I try to use new String(mytext.getBytes(request.getCharacterEncoding()), "UTF-8"); or new String(mytext.getBytes(request.getCharacterEncoding()), "gb2312"); but the result still "???". Could anyone know how to solve it? Thanks in advance! Jack ...

24. Character encoding using Java    coderanch.com

I need to write a file to my m/c.The file's content should be localized.Data is present in localized languages in database. I have constructed htmlstring based on that data.but when I open the file(fileNameString) using browser,I get all garbage. Any pointers? Here is the code I am using :- FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileNameString, true); OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8"); ...

25. Problem encoding chars    coderanch.com

Cowpokes and caballeros, YES, this is a class assignment, but your responses will not improve my grade - only my personal understanding of Java. I wrote a program that is supposed to encode/decode files according to my own encoding scheme. I decided to convert each character's ASCII code to Hex, reverse the Hex digits, and then convert the Hex back to ...

26. Character encoding problem    coderanch.com

Hey JavaGurus! What I need is a converter between Unicode characters and Big5 characters. Big5 is a stand-alone character set encoding; used in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Input should be a Unicode character (0x4e00) and output should be the equivalent character but encoded in Big5 (0xA440). I thought this code would do this is: char[] chArr = {0x4e00}; // One ...

27. Character Encoding Problem    coderanch.com

You also need to take the character encoding of the storage/output/display in attention! If you for example did a system.out.println of that value, then the output source (logfile, IDE console, etc) should also use the right charset. If you for example stored it in a database and retrieved it again for display, then the associated database table should also use the ...

28. Encoding norwegian characters as UTF-8    coderanch.com

Hi all, I am trying to encode a String with the content, "Gratulerer! Du har n \u00e5" into norwegian, the \u00e5 which should be replaced by a "" . I have tried the following, public static String doEncode(String text) throws IOException{ return new String(text.getBytes(),"ISO-8859-1"); } public static String doEncode(String text) throws IOException{ CharsetEncoder charSetEncode = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1").newEncoder(); charSetEncode.reset(); ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(text.length()); ...

29. Character Encoding and Crontab Issue    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm trying to develop an interceptor for my RSS Parser. It's something like my RSS Parser is capable of reading a few standard RSS Feeds. It fails to read the dirty RSS e.g. the ones coming from an IIS environment where character encoding is not provided explicitly. My Java code first fetches the RSS Feed from some source URL and ...

30. Character encoding using java.    coderanch.com

31. Character Encoding in Java    coderanch.com

32. Extended characters encoding in java    coderanch.com

Hi, I have to import a file which contains extended characters into my application. I need to display the file contents in a jsp file. While I am imprting the file the character set used is UTF-8. But still on displaying the contents on a jsp file after having been imported the the extended characters are corrupted. Can anybody give a ...

33. Why to set character Encoding for an Application?    coderanch.com

Hi , I apologize bartenders if its not the correct Forum to post this question . Hi , can anybody please let me know , what is the reason for Setting character encoding for an Application and what part it plays ?? When go through web tutorials , there is this thing : Currently, many browsers do not send character encoding ...

35. Character Encoding    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a text file that downloaded from mainframe dataset.. text file downloaded in windows Cp1256 format. when I open the text file the arabic character contain like " / " I try to convert by below code to display properly String Result= new String(tokenizer.nextToken().getBytes("windows-1256"), "utf-8"); but its showing ???... how I can convert this to display properly in arabic. ...

36. UTF-8 Character Encoding - A Question    coderanch.com

Guys, I have an application which was not designed keeping in mind UTF-8 on the front end (JSP pages) and as well on the database side. But now I would need my app to support UTF-8 encoding scheme. But I just cannot simply change the charset in my jsp pages to UTF-8 and at the same time I cannot set my ...

37. Sevlet encoding for non UTF-8 characters    coderanch.com

Hi, Try this one.Its showing the string as it is in servlet. package demo; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Locale; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; /** * Servlet implementation class Demo */ public class Demo extends HttpServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; /** * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet() */ List list ...

38. character encoding    dbforums.com

39. Weird character encoding with mulitpartrequest    java-forums.org

Hi, I am posting a form using multipartrequest and when i get the parameter mp.getParameter("features"), it is returning some special characters which i do not want. In my form i am using a ° sign but when i'm testing it out System.out.println i get 40?C~85?C where the ° sign gets changed. It works fine in other forms where i'm not using ...

40. "unmappable character for encoding Cp1252"    java-forums.org

41. How to determine the character encoding of a string    forums.oracle.com

It is unfortunate that the iso-8859-x encodings can normally be mapped 1-1 to bytes. This means that any random set of bytes can be converted to a String using an iso-8859-x encoding but then people have to go though contortions such as the OP's code to try to correct the problem. The root cause of the problem seems to be, as ...

42. character encoding    forums.oracle.com

I have solved my problem now, at least so i thought because it all works fine now. Then i noticed that Firefox plays tricks with me. Safari in my MAC, Internet Explorer in Windows works fine. But Firefox both on a MAC and in Windows gives me trouble with the UTF-8 encoding somehow. It only displays iso-8859-1 when you look so ...

43. importance of character encoding?    forums.oracle.com

I am making a list of errors in someone else's code. What about this: outline of existing code byte[] binaryMssg = "sync/ack".getBytes(); // client --- DataOutputStreamtream ---> String mssg = new String(byte[] buf); // server proposed correction: byte[] binaryMssg = "sync/ack".getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-16")); // client --- DataOutputStream ---> String mssg = new String(byte[] buf, Charset.forName("UTF-16")); // server The original developer omitted character encoding. ...

44. how to change character encoding    forums.oracle.com

sabre150 wrote: It is not as simple as that. I have just looked at the Javadoc for 1.6 and found, dare I say it, a bug. The last two methods are both list() , one taking an OutputStream and the other a PrintWriter but the Javadoc is the same for both! A typical copy-and-paste cockup. No, there's a (non-javadoc) comment in ...

45. character encoding problem    forums.oracle.com

Clob data = null; ... while(rs.next()){ data = rs.getClob(1); } Reader reader = data.getCharacterStream(); Then to avoid any conversion I use the reader to create a StreamSource: source = new StreamSource(reader); and a StreamResult: new StreamResult(new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024*5)) then I just use the JAXP API's TransformerFactory to obtain a transformer: private synchronized ByteArrayOutputStream transform(Source in, Source transformer, StreamResult out) throws TransformerException { ...

46. character encoding    forums.oracle.com

I have a small problem with character encoding in GlassFish! I have two languages already for my web page, English and Swedish which both use iso-8859-1. Now i am trying to put a third language in, Russian which use iso-8859-5. GlassFish cannot save this WebTexts_ru.properties file because of this character encoding. If i right click on WebTexts_ru.properties and open properties i ...

47. character encoding    forums.oracle.com

48. Character Encoding - Weird Issue    forums.oracle.com

Can you give an example of an artistName that fails in this manner? Details of the exception (type, message and stack trace)? My guess goes in line with CeciNestPasUnProgrammeur's: an illegal character for the operating system in the file name. On Windows, that would be / \ " + | : and some others. s

49. How to use the character encoding model to use ' ' in java    forums.oracle.com

hi I have to use the special characters like '' using java.but when '' character is transferred to data base or is displayed in my form,it is shown as '?'.but i need to display the original characters in the form of what it is. what can i do as i expects the result .i needs it very urgently.so reply to me ...

50. character encoding    forums.oracle.com

The first thing you should do is check what codepage your console is using. On my WinXP system, the default codepage (a.k.a., encoding) is cp437. In that encoding, the codepoints from 128 to 255 mostly represent line-drawing symbols. You can query the codepage with the "chcp" command, and you change it by supplying an argument, as in chcp 1252 Another thing ...

51. Character encoding ?    forums.oracle.com

Encryption works on bytes not characters so why are you thinking in terms of characters? All the Base64 implementations I have ever worked with use bytes as input not characters. My advice - forget characters and work with bytes and do not try to view the bytes as characters unless one first converts them to Base64.

52. Setting character encoding in a Writer    forums.oracle.com

Hi, Is this possible? I'm reading from an InputStream (stream from a text file) using an InputStreamReader wrapped in a BufferedReader. I set the character encoding in the InputStreamReader. Then I read line by line - making some modifications in the text and writing (appending) each line into a new file (using a FileWriter wrapped in a BufferedWriter). I can't seem ...

54. Character encoding ...    forums.oracle.com

OK ... Ive looked up the values on that site from the 2nd post and ... The java one which gives me value 732 (hex 2dc) is the '~' character... The PHP version which gives me value 152 (hex 98) is a weird 'sos' char. However both print out the '~' character when I display the original string. So obviously they ...

55. character encoding problem    forums.oracle.com

Hello, I want to read text from text area of jsp page and write its contents to a text file which is at server side.While doing this contents are get written into the file at server side file but its encoding get changed to another form. My text area contains some marathi text. english text gets written properly.Problem is only for ...

56. Character Encoding    forums.oracle.com

} the file that i'm trying to read is encoded in 16 bit Unicode(not UTF-8) and the program also writes it to an output file with the same encoding. but all the added text parts("haha") are garbled. I tested the program with UTF-8 and ANSI files and it worked fine. But when I tried to use it with Unicode and Unicode ...

57. Character encoding problem:    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I have a text that is stored in database. It contains some junk characters: // Junk Text-------------- Show off what sellers can win for different levels of achievement. Build a want or desire to have one or more of those prizes in each of your participants. There is a saying; nothing says romance more than fine dining, wine and a ...

58. Problem with character encoding?    forums.oracle.com

I have a webpage containing a textarea. Users can enter some text or update existing text in the textarea and hit the save button. On submit the value of the text area is sent to a bean and then written to an Oracle 10g database. The page is then refreshed and the newly updated data is shown in the textarea. The ...

59. Encoding??? Weird characters (char)65533    forums.oracle.com

Hello, I have been giving the pleasant task of bugfixing something that is not created by me. I've been trying to fix it, but I don't seem to get the solution. The problem is that users are allowed to enter data on a php website. The data is then stored in a MySQL database BLOB field. A java application gets the ...

60. Character Encoding doubt    forums.oracle.com

61. Character Set Encoding Issue    forums.oracle.com

Thanks Kayaman for prompt reply. Our original problem is with special character. In current environment, we are using JBoss 4.2.3 with wrapper service (http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com) and Oracle 10g DB. We have not defined any character set at JBoss level and its using characterset defined at OS level which is ISO8859_15. With this setup, I don't have any problem in special character. Now ...